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Samantha Hayes ReportingA home for women who have fallen on hard times is facing its own problems and today closed its doors. The Marillac house needed repair, now many women need to find somewhere else to go.
The Marillac House was created in 1983 to provide safe, comfortable and temporary emergency shelter for women and their children who are homeless. It provides services to help them overcome poverty. Now the Marillac House program is moving to a new building. Until then residential treatment is temporarily suspended.
They have lost everything but survived by holding on tight to each other, now some of the women here are afraid they will lose that too.
Taryn Ray, Shelter resident: "We lost our biggest support system. We have gained a lot from the time we spent there, love, trust, no judgment from the people there."
Taryn Ray won't be staying there tonight, or for that matter the next eight months. Catholic Community Services is shutting down the Marillac shelter temporarily because of problems with the heating system.
Suzanne Davis, Catholic Community Services: "We did not know the boiler was going to be shut down and so we were just at odds. A very difficult situation for the women and for us. So we placed the women in hotels where we could."
That has been a temporary fix in the eyes of shelter residents, who feel they have had enough transition in their lives.
Linda Tutt, Shelter resident: "Now we are back at square one again. We are homeless again. And everyone along the way kept telling us, ‘If you do what you are supposed to do if you stay sober if you try if you do all these good things, things will happen for you.'"
Taryn Ray: "We spent the last six days in hotels and when we went home yesterday we were told we had until 6 or 7 to find another place to go, and they were done, closed."
The new building is supposed to be up and running by June. The director says similar residential facilities have been found for women who have no place else to go.
